Christian herald and signs of our times . waywith the absent one. She heard a timid tap onthe window, and, looking up, saw a white, scaredface. Hurrying to the door she held oat herarms, and Lucy sank weeping on her still, and elegantly clothed, the prodi-gal had tremblingly come home for refuge. De-serted and despairing, it was her last hope. Fora few brief minutes the mother and daughterrejoiced together in the reunion, but in bothhearts there was a dread soon to be sank to the floor and buried her face inher mothers lap as she heard her fathers stepapproaching.
Christian herald and signs of our times . waywith the absent one. She heard a timid tap onthe window, and, looking up, saw a white, scaredface. Hurrying to the door she held oat herarms, and Lucy sank weeping on her still, and elegantly clothed, the prodi-gal had tremblingly come home for refuge. De-serted and despairing, it was her last hope. Fora few brief minutes the mother and daughterrejoiced together in the reunion, but in bothhearts there was a dread soon to be sank to the floor and buried her face inher mothers lap as she heard her fathers stepapproaching. She heard the door open, heardas in a dream her mothers pleading tones, andthen she was taken roughly by the shoulders andthrust out into the nighr. Swiftly, with thestrength of despair, she flew before the bitterwords of reproach her relentless father hurled ather, making her way instinctively to the river. Oh, had there been some one to tell her of thelove of God for the lost, of Him who said, Neither do I condemn thee ; go and sin no. The Outcast. (Seepage 444.) more—if only some pitying hand had at thatsupreme crisis pointed her to the cross, shemight have been saved. There was none. Shefelt herself an outcast, and with mad hasteplunged into the pitiless stream. There was much sympathy manifested forJonathan Evans when the body was found andrecognized. It was an inscrutable dispensation,his friends said, that so good a man should beso disgraced by his sinful daughter, and in theprayer-meetings petitions were offered for thebrother on whom God had been pleased to layHis afflicting hand. The Sunday-school chil-dren were warned by Lucys fate, and the sadevent was improved in a special one poor heart-broken woman, rapidlysinking into the grave, bowed down by sorrow,took a different view of the calamity, and shewas silent. It might be that the others wereright ; they were better instructed than she ;but she loved the transgressor, and mourned forher who had found
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